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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
'This is a book written from the point of view of a historian interested not only in science itself but also in the factors affecting the development of the subject; the individual personalities of the scientists, the political and social influences of the times, and the role of chance and circumstance in some of the great advances.' -- 'Observatory'